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This might open me up to being accused of being a romantic, but it seems like Bitcoin is finally outgrowing Bitcointalk.

Something I mentioned at the last conference during a QandA was the question of what happens when so many people join Bitcoin that the core "idealists" of Bitcoin are no longer at the helm of the Bitcoin ship?

Certainly with talk about Paypal and Western Union considering Bitcoin, it begs to wonder if Bitcoin is outgrowing Bitcointalk itself. Already you can see a noticeable shift towards Reddit as a source of information that newer Bitcoin community members are gravitating to.

This is a good thing, but it's an interesting phenomenon to watch as well. Certainly no one person or group of people owns the brain trust behind "gold" so what happens to bitcoin when it because a 'public domain' thing?

 

Bitcoin outgrew bitcointalk a long time ago. This was one of the reasons for moving the forum off bitcoin.org. Many people using or developing bitcoin regard bitcointalk as a cesspool, especially this "Bitcoin Discussion" subforum.

On the other hand the other bitcoin forums are pretty boring (especially the Bitcoin Foundation one) and have only few users, so I still check here.

But the time that the bitcoin community was limited to one forum is been long gone.

I hope it does outgrow this forum, that means it's getting a lot more widely adopted.

there are so many bitcoin startups and the only place they are advertised is on this forum

BitSpend has a paid-for subforum on Reddit.

you can do that?

I was directed to their subreddit a while back by a friend.

When I was reading through it, one of the service reps mentioned that they were paying for the subreddit.

So I don't really know, I'm not a big reddit user, but that's what was stated.

Also, who uses the foundation forums? Is it active? Is there good discussion?
Just curious.

Another reason people stuck by Bitcointalk was that it was a place where they could communicate with service providers whether or not it met any other needs.  Far fewer service providers use it to communicate with their customers these days, so that particular anchor is largely gone.  People are probably going to be more willing to migrate to new forums which reflect their particular interests now because they're not going to "miss out" if they only check out Bitcointalk occasionally or not at all (important stuff will always get linked on other forums anyway).

Unless they make a forum they better incorporates all Crypto coins, I think Bitcointalk will stay on top for a while.

I think you are kidding yourselves thinking that there are significant communities discussing Bitcoin outside of this forum.

You're kidding right?

As a random anecdote even the dutch forum community "fok" has a significant number of people discussing bitcoin for some time. There are quite a few IRC channels discussing bitcoin as well.

And there are many local communities in different countries meeting up and working on BTC related projects.

Of course startups advertise on this forum, that makes business sense. That doesn't mean they are born on it.

I like these forums but don't flatter yourself into thinking you're everyone that cares about Bitcoin on earth.

It's really inactive. There is a post once in a while. But usually if there is a post it's mindful. It's quite the polar opposite of here :)

This coming from a user with 277 posts?

There are many significant communities discussion Bitcoin outside of the forum. The most obvious would be the developers mailing list, if you notice the people who actually build bitcoin and make it work don't show up here very often.